Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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While Rogers jokingly fears she's becoming a running addict--"I have to get my eight hours of sleep; I've nearly stopped drinking and always worry about what I eat now"--the sinewy senior keeps running in perspective. Rogers is as much in her element out on the course as she is in her ornate Claverly bedroom, poring over political cartoons of French caricaturist Honore Daumier, the subject of her current History thesis...
...Maine, the best mushrooms as Pennsylvanian and the best mules as Missouri's. The best veal, according to Luongo, comes from Delt Blue Provimi Inc., in Watertown, Wis.; the best steaks from Murray's in Minneapolis (both are available by mail). The best jelly beans, as J.B. Addict Ronald Reagan may know, come from the Jelly Belly of South El Monte, Calif, in 32 flavors...
...Chairman Charles D. Ferris, 47, insists that the action is necessary to make the fledgling cable industry truly competitive. The FCC ruling, unless stopped by court action, will also provide the 17 million cable TV subscribers with a choice of shows that should satisfy even the most compulsive tube addict...
...perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to consume energy as lavishly as it did. But when oil demand scraped up against the limits of easy supply in the early 1970s and the OPEC producers began raising prices to levels previously unimagined, the importing nations were as helpless as an addict hooked on cheap heroin...
...happy times for jazz musicians, and the surviving Kansas City jazzmen have learned how to deal with the disappointments of the intervening years; when they get together, they share joy, humor, and open affection. Jazz fans already know about the tragedies of Kansas City--how Charlie Parker died an addict, destitute and disillusioned at 35, how a disastrous gig with the U.S. Army ravaged Lester Young's unique and delicate personality. Bitter recollections of these stories would not touch anyone not already familiar with them...